Cindy Shiner
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Spec #Novelist, #Screenwriter | Former Journalist | Bylines Washington Post, NPR | 🐴 Girl | #scriptsky Motto: Think big, live small
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Coming up this week on my ShineWoman Substack! Managing the unexpected on my horse riding adventure in Spain’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. It was a wild ride, continuing this year's theme of random events that can threaten to throw you off track. #Travel #Adventure #Equine #Women #Resilience
Have you been #DOGEd, otherwise laid off or forced to reckon with family or financial upheaval? I figure that covers a lot of us. Check out my latest on #Substack. If you like these posts, please pass on - subscription is free or cheap! open.substack.com/pub/cindyshi... #OlderWomen #Aging
A House Divided
Parsing things, preserving memories
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Check out my latest story from my month-long trip to Spain to figure out my life after being DOGEd! If you like what you see, subscribe (free or cheap) for more Barcelona: A Love Letter. Reflections on my youth in a changing city cindyshiner.substack.com/p/barcelona-...
Barcelona: A Love Letter
Reflections on my youth in a changing city
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Check out my 3-part narrative on horse #voluntourism gone awry while traveling in #Spain. You can find it on my Substack ShineWoman - subscribe for free for that story and more on my travel adventures after getting #DOGEd. Below Rudy the sheep next to my Land Rover accommodation at the stables.
I saved a life today. It was reptilian, but still a life. And in this era of anti-grace and official desire to put people “in trauma,” any act of kindness, no matter how small, can feel like rebellion. #DOGE #unemployment #USAID #Musk #FederalWorkforce open.substack.com/pub/cindyshi...
Finding Grace on a Suburban Road
Even the smallest acts of kindness are life affirming
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One line stood out: "...we did it without a massive budget, props departments and special-effects teams." I understand the benefits of reduced costs - look what digital did for indies. But how many creatives will be put out of work with #AI? Thoughts? #scriptsky www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-f...
We Made a Film With AI. You’ll Be Blown Away—and Freaked Out.
We tried to direct an AI film. The tools are magic. The process is madness.
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Hot off the keyboard! If you like what you see, subscribe (free or cheap) and share! #scriptsky #writing #writers #travel open.substack.com/pub/cindyshi...
Hitting the Horse Trail in Spain
Finding my footing after getting the boot
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"Do they have the new insurance bro?" My auto corrected text to my son after his dentist visit. *info
Bots creep me out, especially when they offer, unsolicited (obv) to help me find a #job. 👁️
This headline looks like it belongs in The Onion instead of the Wall Street Journal. U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
Life is life-ing at an incredibly accelerated rate lately. And I ate almost a whole strawberry rhubarb pie.
Coffee rooster. Somehow, in this time of #unemployment the kitchen has become my studio. There can be beauty in uncertainty, creativity in limbo. I didn't intend to create the rooster. But a quieter mind can enable us to see. Have you been creative lately? Would love to see ☀️
Voila my first sourdough. It makes unemployment taste so much better.
"It looks like flubber," my son said. This is not a promising start to my sourdough.
Back to the #novel. Some stories are just better as novels and don't translate well as #screenplays - they become different stories. I tend to know instantly when a story is either and I really shouldn't waste time thinking otherwise. Maybe others have different experiences? #scriptsky
Banana bread is an acceptable dinner item, right? Because it's bread. It's not cake, definitely not cake. 🍌
Don't write a story where the protagonist changes at the end. Write a story where the protagonist changes throughout, and that change allows a satisfying end. My screenwriting improved dramatically when I realized the difference. #screenwriting
Yodellers of the world, you never stood a chance: Monkeys will always be better at yodelling than humans because they have a "cheap trick" hidden in their voice box, scientists reveal. u.afp.com/SiHq
The odious Trump seeks to drive a wedge between people from #Canada and #USA. Yet North Americans are some of the finest people I follow. So here’s the first of 3 packs celebrating them. Great North Americans, #writers, #campaigners, #poets and other really good people. Please follow and repost
Yay! My town for the win! #Boulder #Scripsky www.sundance.org/new-sundance...
About Our 2027 Festival Move - sundance.org
Starting January 2027, the Sundance Film Festival will be held in Boulder, Colorado. The 2026 Sundance Film Festival will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, as previously announced.
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An excellent starter pack from @edgeoerin.com of multi-genre artists and authors. Some really interesting people in here worth following. #writingcommunity #artists #booksky Please explore and repost 👇
Edge O. Erin@edgeoerin.com · 2y agoMany openings available in the Multi-genre Artists and Authors Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/96Bq1BU
Hey fellow recently #unemployed and #DOGE'd. Ever consider pivoting in your #career? For about an hour this weekend I thought of becoming a pastry chef and baked some bread. 😂
BREAKING: Greenland no longer worried about surprise invasion
